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- DirectorHobart HenleyStarsReginald DennyMabel Julienne ScottCharles K. FrenchA young man is raised in the mountains by his prizefighter father. Although he possesses great strength and athletic skill, he is completely out of his league when it comes to women. He becomes a successful boxer in San Francisco and is given the name "The Abysmal Brute". When he rescues a drowning man, he meets a beautiful socialite named Maude Sangster and falls in love. His lack of social skills proves a hindrance when a rival suitor competes with him for Maude's affections.
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsClaire WindsorNorman KerryBarbara BedfordWhen a wealthy man is found murdered in his bedroom, one of his two adopted sons is arrested and charged with the killing. However, the verdict at his trial is an acquittal. Since the police don't seem to be particularly interested in finding the real killer, the dead man's daughter-in-law--the wife of the adopted son who wasn't charged--takes it upon herself to solve the crime.
- DirectorRobert G. VignolaStarsMarion DaviesT. Roy BarnesTom LewisAn extravagant girl reforms when her father goes bust.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsMilton SillsElliott DexterTheodore KosloffMichael Ramsay only has time for gathering his fortune in wheat. His wife seeks comfort elsewhere and, to avoid a scandal, her daughter Mathilda assumes her mother's guilt. Ramsay nearly goes broke but gets rich again; his wife returns.
- DirectorG.B. SamuelsonWalter SummersStarsLillian Hall-DavisFred HearneJames LindsayA postmistress saves a swindling bookie by influencing a judge, her ex-lover.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJosef SwickardWilliam Collier Jr.Frederick TruesdellJanet Loring is a young widow with a young son. She marries millionaire Malcolm Trask, but doesn't tell him about her previous marriage or her son Ranny. Abandoned to the streets by Janet, Ranny eventually moves in with a bookseller and her granddaughter Margy. As the years go by, Janet comes to regret abandoning her son and takes out ads looking for him. Marcio, a vicious blackmailer, sends Ranny to Janet posing as her son, not knowing that the young boy actually is her son. Complications ensue.
- DirectorJoseph FranzStarsWilliam RussellMaude WayneCharles K. FrenchBing Howard a former stockbroker, is called the "Night Wind" because he is a fugitive from justice, persistently being trailed by Clifford Rushton, a private detective who has framed Howard on a bond robbery. Rushton's failure to catch Howard forces the chief to turn the case over to Detective Katherine Maxwell, alias "Lady Kate," whose brother was sent to prison for bond robbery on the same evidence Rushton has brought against Howard. Lady Kate provides a temporary hideout for Howard, then proves that Rushton is guilty of both crimes.
- DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsFlorence VidorClaude GillingwaterHarold GoodwinAlice (Florence Vidor) is not satisfied with her family's financial situation and tries to convince others that she comes from a wealthy family. In the end she discovers that she is only fooling herself and decides to go to work to help her father's failing business.
- DirectorWalt DisneyHugh HarmanCarman MaxwellStarsVirginia DavisWalt DisneyHugh HarmanAlice visits an animation studio, where the animators show her various scenes on their drawing boards. A few of them: a cat dancing to a cat band; a mouse poking at a (live) cat until it moves; a couple mice boxing, while the animators crowd around cheering and acting as corner-men. That night, she dreams of taking a train to cartoon-land, where a red carpet reception awaits. She appears in live action. They have a welcoming parade, with Alice riding on an elephant. The cartoons dance for her, and she dances for them. Meanwhile, the lions break out of the zoo. The lions chase her into a hollow tree, then into a cave and down a rabbit hole. Finally, she jumps off a cliff and awakes back in her bed.
- DirectorReinhold SchünzelStarsEmil JanningsHermann ThimigDagny ServaesRupp (Jannings) is a former butcher, made rich in the meat packing industry as a result of the reversal of fortunes brought on by WWI. He is crude, uncouth and uneducated. His son, Fred, is the apple of his father's eye and is an auto enthusiast. The widowed Rupp falls in love with a former aristocrat, Helen, now down on her luck and pawning her last heirloom. He proposes marriage and she accepts in order to save her ailing mother who needs a monetary influx to avoid death. Her former boyfriend, Platen, warns Helen against Rupp's intentions - he and Rupp are enemies, Rupp having caused his being fired for protecting a chorus girl against Rupp's unwanted advances. Meanwhile, Graf, a shyster, arranges purchase of a near bankrupt auto manufacturing firm, Phoenix, to Rupp's great advantage with practically no monetary recognition to Graf, who swears revenge. Rupp comes upon his son begging Helen not to marry his father but to return to Platen. Rupp misinterprets the scene, thinks his son is after his intended, and banishes him. The last twenty minutes involve an auto race and its aftermath. Fred unknown to all becomes the driver of his father's rival auto maker. Platen is driving for Rupp's firm, Phoenix. In order to win, Rupp has bribed Graf to make sure his rival won't.
- DirectorIrvin WillatStarsMalcolm McGregorBillie DoveLon ChaneyJoel Shore is made captain of the whaling schooner formerly headed by his courageous and admired brother, Mark, who was lost at sea. Accompanied by his bride, who suspects Joel to have a cowardly heart, they set sail for a whale hunt.
- DirectorJaap SpeyerStarsLena AmselHugo DöblinOlga Engl
- DirectorHugh CroiseSeymour HicksAlfred HitchcockStarsSeymour HicksStanley LoganGertrude McCoyTwo couples, the Hawkeses and the Chessons, engage in an affair.
- DirectorEwald André DupontStarsHenny PortenRuth WeyherHermann VallentinBaruch Mayr, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an actor. Due to this behaviour his father bans him from his family. Baruch, who joined a small burlesque troupe is discovered by an Austrian Erzherzogin (archdutchess) who introduces him to the director of the most important Theater in Vienna, the Burgtheater. Baruch receives a contract there and becomes more and more an assimilated jew. But his relation with the Erzherzogin isn't approved by the Austrian court, so they have to end it. When an old friend of his father, who is always traveling from one Jewish community to the next (and has told him first about the theatres in the world), Baruch becomes a little bit homesick and returns for a holiday to his old shtetl to see his folks and to pick up his childhood sweetheart. But his father wants him not to enter his house, so he returns to Vienna, with his bride. But his old friend does not stop trying to convince his father of his errors.
- DirectorJohn Griffith WrayThomas H. InceStarsBlanche SweetWilliam RussellGeorge F. MarionA troubled young woman comes to live with her estranged father on the New York waterfront. A tough sailor falls in love with her, sparking conflict between her father and her suitor. What neither knows is that she has a secret that could cause her to lose both of them.
- DirectorPer LindbergStarsAnn Britt OhlsonStig HerlitzCarl BrowalliusA series of events during a summer in Anna-Clara's life.
- DirectorCharles R. SeelingStarsGeorge LarkinOllie KirbyMarie NewallAn "Apache dancer" saves an American girl's life in a café in Paris. Shortly afterwards he inherits a lot of money, and travels to the US to find the girl, whom he has fallen in love with, and ask her to marry him. However, he comes up against several people who want to discredit him to the girl, and will stop at nothing to do so.
- DirectorTom FormanStarsColleen MooreKenneth HarlanRuth CliffordDanny O'Rourke, whose policeman father died a hero in the fulfillment of his duty, is training to become a member of the force. He is in love with Maggie Muldoon, who lives across the court. Miriam Welton, a girl of wealth, opens up a neighborhood clubhouse for the purpose of giving happiness to the poor. Her efforts are very poorly received, but she inveigles Danny to come to the club, and sends a beautiful hat to his sister as a gift. The hat gives Shannon the masculine attention which she craves and leads her to steal in order to be attractive. Danny fails to pass his examination, and is confronted with a demand for one thousand dollars to make good his sister's thefts. He takes part in a prize fight in order to get the money, but is badly beaten. On reaching home, however, he learns that there was an error in the marking of his paper, so he is eligible to be a policeman. Though bruised he is happy, and he finally wins Maggie, the girl of his heart.
- DirectorTom FormanStarsMadge BellamyLloyd HughesTom SantschiCoddled by his maiden aunts and apparently unable to make decisions, Oliver Wendell Blaine signs up for a mail-order course in "Success." Oliver follows the instructions step by step, builds his self-confidence, and proves himself a hero when a log jam threatens the town. He is made river boss and marries Phyllis Thorpe, daughter of the owner of the lumber-mill.
- DirectorJ. Searle DawleyStarsRobert FrazerGladys HuletteFrank LoseeSherry Mason, the playboy son of wealthy parents, lives a life of self-indulgence until he meets Nadia Meredith, the daughter of a poor bookseller. Smitten with her, he asks her to marry him but she refuses, detecting an evil streak hidden beneath his surface. He heads to Paris with his father's crooked business partner, where they get mixed up in a murder and Mason must flee back to the US, where he once again runs into Nadia under an entirely different set of circumstances.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsNorma TalmadgeConway TearleWallace BeeryWhen Empress Catherine of France launches an attack on French Protestants known as Huguenots, the Comte de la Roche saves the life of his enemy, the Huguenot Rupert de Vrieac, by making him an indentured servant in his castle. Rupert falls in love with Yolande, the count's sister, and finds that his rival for the fair Yolande's hand is none other than the despicable Duc de Tours, a notorious torturer of Huguenots.
- DirectorAshton DearholtStarsEdmund CobbHelene RossonWilbur McGaughTwo prospectors are partners in a gold claim, but are both in love with the same girl. One partner suggests that they play a game of cards, and the loser gives up the girl and the claim, but when he loses the game he decides to change the rules.
- DirectorMuhsin ErtugrulStarsRefik Kemal ArdumanEmin Belig BelliBehzat ButakAyse who lost her husband and child during the occupation of Izmir by Greek Army in 1919 goes to Istanbul to attend demonstrations which are arranged against the occupation of Anatolia. And then she passes to Anatolia to be a nurse and meets with Ihsan there. At that time Turkish War of Independence starts and they participate to this battle together.
- DirectorEdwin GreenwoodStarsJack BuchananValiaDorinea ShirleyA collector mistakes a thief for his daughter's secret husband and vice versa.
- DirectorRaymond LongfordStarsErnest Idiens
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsLilly MarischkaMary KidVictor VarconiTo lead a whole new life, probably more carefree, with the dancer Kitty, George Rothwill abandoned his wife Nora and his son. And without any scruples he squanders, with his new conquest, the money of his old mother.
- DirectorRobert F. McGowanStarsJoe CobbJackie CondonMickey DanielsThe gang operates a donkey-propelled tour bus. Later, a cut-rate vaudeville producer hires them to help out with his show, which they wreck.
- DirectorEdward SlomanStarsEdith RobertsAlfred LuntWilliam B. MackAs has his family for generations, André de Mersay rules the little town of St. Croix, Maine, and its surrounding lumber interests. While thinking of his granddaughter, Yvonne, who is returning from France, André recalls the story of his namesake ancestor who, in the time of Louis XV of France, was cruelly separated from his sweetheart, Yvonne de Chausson, and exiled to America. When Yvonne arrives she is told by Anthony Bracken, de Mersay's business manager, that her grandfather is seriously ill and may see no one. The arrival of John Thorne and his efforts to open up a tract of lumber long intended to be worked by the de Mersays further infuriate Yvonne. After much conflict and danger to Yvonne and John, it is revealed that de Mersay died sometime ago; that Bracken and his partner, Doc Roper, were embezzling de Mersay funds; and that John Thorne is descended from Yvonne de Chausson. Yvonne and John are united, thus fulfilling a promise centuries old.
- DirectorEdwin CareweStarsHolbrook BlinnJack MulhallWalter McGrailInfamous Mexican bandit Pancho López recognizes Gilbert Jones as the man who once saved his life; therefore, when Jones is in danger of losing his ranch for default of mortgage payment, López determines to help him. At the same time, Morgan Pell, intending to cheat Jones out of his potentially oil-rich property, offers him a sum of money, which Jones conditionally accepts. When López discovers that Jones and Mrs. Pell are in love he has Pell shot, then robs a local bank, pays the mortgage, and returns the cattle he has stolen. With Mr. Pell out of the way and the ranch secure, Jones and Mrs. Pell are free to marry.
- DirectorFinis FoxStarsGloria GreyJohn RocheCarmelita GeraghtyCountry girl Hope Anthony follows Hal Tracy to the city, where she becomes involved in a jewel theft after a criminal named Jathrow Billings mistakes her handbag for a satchel of jewels he stole from the wealthy Mrs. Marian Cooper. Hal solves the mystery and keeps Hope out of jail.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonJohn BrownPhyllis HaverA hapless amusement park attendant finds his run away balloon ride has left him in a strange predicament.
- DirectorDavid KirklandStarsJohn BowersMarjorie DawSylvia BreamerDick Alden, a 12-year-old boy mistreated by his stepfather and picked on by the other residents of his village, is wrongly accused of setting fire to the local schoolhouse. He runs away but vows to take his revenge on the village. Years later he gets his chance when he returns to take over the mill he has inherited--he plans to close it down, which would throw most of the people out of work and destroy the economy. However, he runs into someone from his past that could put a halt to his plans.
- DirectorLarry SemonStarsLarry SemonKathleen MyersOliver HardyTwo land sharks, U. Holdim and I. Robim, are after a farmer's property where oil has been discovered. The farm hand, Lay Zee, in love with the farmer's daughter, saves the farm and routs the oily crooks.
- DirectorSessue HayakawaÉdouard-Émile VioletStarsSessue HayakawaTsuru AokiFélix FordLeft behind while her husband is in Europe, a Japanese military wife entertains the advances of a young British officer.When her man returns, he uses the affair to glean military secrets from the lover.
- DirectorWebster CullisonStarsEdmund CobbFlorence GilbertAshton DearholtA Secret Service agent on the trail of a gang of outlaws, enters a cattle community as a stranger, and rescues a young rancher from an ambush. A jealous woman who was rejected by the rancher, who was romancing another girl, had sent her henchmen out to kill him, however, the culprits are members of the same gang the agent was assigned to bring to justice.
- DirectorStuart PatonStarsWallace BeeryEstelle TaylorForrest StanleyA battle of wills develops between two Russian revolutionaries, one of whom wants to destroy everything connected with the old order, and the other of whom wants to accomplish his goals with as little bloodshed as possible.
- DirectorWilliam James CraftStarsWilliam DesmondEileen SedgwickWilliam GouldPhilip Grant attempts to reclaim five million dollars in gold stolen from his fathers' steamer by a submarine.
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsMarie PrevostKenneth HarlanHarry MyersGloria, the daughter in a wealthy family, has finally spent most of her father's money. She marries Tony, whose as much of a reckless spendthrift as she is, and they continue indulging themselves. Tony's wealthy grandfather Adam Patch dies, but to their surprise he leaves Tony nothing. The couple try their hands at actually working for a living, but they don't like it and return to their spendthrift ways. Something has to give, and it soon does.
- DirectorMax MackStarsHella MojaFritz RichardIlka Grüning
- DirectorWalter WestStarsViolet HopsonJames KnightRobert VallisA workman loses his winnings on a stud race horse bought from a bookmaker.
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsDouglas MacLeanJohn StepplingMargaret LoomisHarry Elrod takes a job as a bellboy when he is disinherited by his uncle and fails in his efforts to elope with actress Kitty Clyde.
- DirectorGeorge FitzmauriceStarsPola NegriConway TearleConrad NagelBella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involved with brutish Baroudi.
- DirectorFred LeRoy GranvilleStarsCarlyle BlackwellMadge StuartPhyllis TitmussA jilted rich man poses as a tramp and falls in love with an orphan.
- DirectorMario BonnardStarsEmilia VidaliDomenico SerraNini DinelliBased on the famous historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni, and set between 1628 and 1630 in Lombardy "northern Italy" during the Spanish domination, tells of the contrasted marriage between the two young textile workers Renzo and Lucia. The 1922 version is the most ambitious and spectacular film in all Italian silent cinema, with remarkable mass scenes and some images that triggered the censorship.
- DirectorArthur RobisonStarsWerner KraussAgnes StraubElga Brink
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsTom MooreEdith RobertsRaymond HattonWhen gangster Jimmy Donovan is made guardian of Midge, the 7-year-old brother of his friend Big Ben Murray, he decides to reform and rear Midge properly. The court takes custody of Midge, but Donovan proves himself by recovering a payroll stolen by some of his ex-colleagues, thereby winning Midge and Kitty, his girl.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsBuck JonesMarian NixonBen Hendricks Jr.Big Dan returns from the war, and finding that his wife has left him, turns his home into a boys' camp and begins to train boxers.
- DirectorRobert F. McGowanStarsJoe CobbJackie CondonMickey DanielsThe gang creates its own makeshift county fair, highlighted by a "movie," which is really a clever stage performance.
- DirectorFinis FoxStarsMilford W. HowardDerelys PerdueCecil HollandA mad doctor uses his powers of telepathy to control a beautiful young girl.
- DirectorFranz HoferStarsLoni NestFritz SchroeterAnna von Palen
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsCorinne GriffithConway TearleTom RickettsA Manhattan playboy falls in love with a mysterious European woman whom he notices as an exact double for a famous socialite who disappeared at the turn of the century. At first, he thinks it's just pure coincidence, as the beautiful young woman he's currently romancing is much younger than the woman who vanished years before, but he soon starts to believe that it's not such a coincidence after all.
- DirectorEdward SedgwickStarsHoot GibsonEsther RalstonMathilde BrundageGeoffrey Arbuthnot Islip " Blinky " (Hoot Gibson), the bespectacled son of Col. "Raw Meat" Islip, is scorned by his fellow cavalrymen stationed on the Mexican border because his previous military experience was as a Boy Scout. He redeems himself by rescuing Major Kileen's daughter Mary Lou (Esther Ralston), from kidnappers, following their trail in Boy Scout fashion.
- DirectorMauritz StillerStarsGustav AronsonStina BergHugo BjörneGunnar Hede, a young Swedish man, wants to become a professional musician, but when his father suddenly dies he is pressured by his family to take over the family business, raising and selling reindeer. He doesn't like the business and isn't suited for it, but he gives in and takes over. However, when he is badly injured one day in an accident while driving the herd over the frozen Arctic and sustains some serious head trauma, his family fears that he may be permanently mentally damaged and they may lose both Gunnar and the family business.
- DirectorLudwig CzernyStarsFerry SiklaMizzi SchützAda Svedin
- DirectorDon MarquisStarsDick HattonNelson McDowellWilliam F. MoranAn outlaw decides to hang up his guns and lead the "straight" life. His foster son falls for the daughter of a wealthy estate owner. The crooked manager of the estate wants the girl for himself--so he can control the estate when the father dies--and tells the father that the boy is an outlaw's son. Complications ensue.
- DirectorJames W. HorneStarsWarner BaxterRalph LewisDerelys PerdueJack Dunbar, needing a job, meets millionaire Nicholas Small, who gives him advice and presents him as a colleague. Small would like his daughter, Anne, to marry inventor Gillen Jolyon. Dunbar perfects and successfully demonstrates Jolyon's wireless power transmitting device in spite of Small's attempts to sabotage it, and he rescues Anne when she is caught in an electric power fracas caused by her father's villainy. Anne breaks her engagement with Jolyon and marries Dunbar.
- DirectorWilliam BowdenDick CruikshanksStarsMolly AdairArthur PuseyDoreen WonforIn the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together, unaware that sexual maturity will eventually intervene.
- DirectorSam WoodStarsGloria SwansonHuntley GordonCharles GreeneMona deBriac, the beautiful daughter of a French nobleman, is induced to marry wealthy American John Brandon because her family needs his money. When she learns that her husband has divorced seven wives, she becomes so angry that she tries to force Brandon, who really loves her, into another divorce. Brandon refuses to release her, and they are finally reconciled.
- DirectorMax GlassStarsHelga MolanderAnton EdthoferPaul Biensfeldt
- DirectorWilliam WorthingtonStarsFrank MayoCharles A. StevensonPhyllis HaverIn order to inherit her uncle's fortune Natalie Judson enters a marriage of convenience, so she can inherit her uncle's fortune, to mechanic Brooke Garriott, who has long loved her. Natalie pursues her party life while Brooke plunges himself into his work and successfully perfects an engine. One evening Brooke comes home to find Rene Deland making love to Natalie and shows them a telegram saying that the Judson fortune has been wiped out. Deland is no longer interested in Natalie, who now realizes Brooke's true worth and her love for him.
- DirectorKarin SwanströmStarsHarald AdelsohnElsa AdeniusWiktor AnderssonJohan Sjöborg and his wife Karin are on their way back to Sweden from New York. They arrive to Gothenburg just as the big exhibition is opening.
- DirectorCharles CalvertStarsGladys CooperIvor NovelloHugh MillerIn the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.
- DirectorScott R. DunlapStarsWilliam RussellEva NovakFrank BrownleeBoston Blackie, just released from prison, threatens the warden, Benton, that he will have him removed from his job for using the water cross, a form of torture, on prisoners. Blackie's sweetheart, Mary Carter, helps him avoid this torture after his return to prison. The officers pursue Blackie, capture him, and bring him back to Benton, but Mary reports to the governor, and they arrive in time to save Blackie from further torments by bringing his pardon. Benton is fired.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsBen AlexanderRockliffe FellowesHenry B. WalthallA wealthy banker is a strict disciplinarian with his nine-year-old son Bill. Finally the day comes when neither Bill nor his mother can put up any more with the father's relentlessness and heavy-handed treatment; she leaves and takes Bill with her. The father must decide what's more important--maintaining his iron discipline over his family, or his family itself.
- DirectorTom McNamaraStarsJoe CobbJackie CondonMickey DanielsA kindly old schoolteacher helps the gang escape from a cruel boarding school, but they wind up in a bootlegger's booby-trapped house.
- DirectorIvan MozzhukhinStarsIvan MozzhukhinNathalie LissenkoNicolas KolineA woman, named simply "Elle" and her husband, a wealthy industrialist, are not on the best of terms. While she enjoys the way he caters to her every whim, she wonders whether he really loves her. He, on the other hand, torments himself by imagining rivals. One morning she awakens from a nightmare in which she has been pursued by a man in various guises, who turns out to be the famous Detective Z, whose memoirs she has been reading. When she and her husband quarrel over leaving Paris permanently for a country estate, he goes to the "Trouve Tout" Agency and hires, of all people, Detective Z, to win back her affection. She promptly steals their marriage contract. Z tracks down the document and is nearly seduced in the process, but he resists her and returns to the comforts of home, his adoring mother, and a pet bulldog. In a chic restaurant one evening, she challenges him to a dancing duel, which he wins. After her confession of love, he goes home with a toothache. The contract is returned, the married couple plan to go away on a trip - all is ending as it should...
- DirectorSidney FranklinStarsMonte BlueMarie PrevostHarry MyersWith her marriage on the verge of breaking up, a young wife attempts to win back the love of her husband and child.
- DirectorMaurice TourneurStarsHarry MyersErnest TorrenceTully MarshallYoung London architect Horace Ventimore stumbles across an old brass bottle. When he picks it up a genie suddenly appears and promises Horace that he will grant every wish Horace wants in exchange for his freedom. Horace accepts the genie's offer but finds out that things aren't working out quite as well as he thought they would.
- DirectorLynn ReynoldsStarsWilliam FarnumWanda HawleyTom SantschiStephen "Flash" Lanning returns from the east to help a sheriff out west rid the town of cattle rustlers. He falls for a pretty hotel clerk named Gloria Hallowell, but she believes he in love with Ellen Bosworth, a woman from the east. Ellen discovers that a friend of hers, Clearwater, is a cattle rustler. She informs Lanning. Campan, head of the cattle rustlers, kidnaps Gloria and Ellen and takes them into the desert. They are caught in a sandstorm, but Lanning rescues the two women and leaves Campan. Gloria marries Lanning.
- DirectorHunt StrombergStarsCarrie Clark WardBull MontanaKalla PashaThe O'Tooles inherit a fortune and move to Pasadena where they try to break into society by having lavish dinner parties. The guests are stunned by the O'Tooles' manners, and they leave when the "Pittsburgh Kid" and his Bowery wife, Yvonne, uninvited guests, arrive.
- DirectorWebster CampbellStarsDoris KenyonHarrison FordEdmund BreeseAn innocent country girl who happens to have a lovely singing voice falls under the influence of a ruthless Broadway producer. At first she's dazzled by the producer's surface charm as well as those bright lights the title refers to, but eventually gets a dose of reality (after accidentally becoming involved in a murder and a race against time to save a condemned man). The film also includes a truly hair-raising train crash.
- DirectorJohn S. RobertsonStarsRichard BarthelmessDorothy GishJetta GoudalCharles Abbott is a wealthy adventurer in 1850s Cuba. He is in love with Narcissa but goes after La Clavel to obtain information on the Spanish. He becomes implicated in the death of his friend Escobar, brother of Narcissa.
- DirectorEdmund MortimerStarsRichard TraversMay AllisonBen Hendricks Jr.A young woman is "rescued" from the evils of city life by a man who takes her to the logging camp where he works. However, he soon gets into a fight with another logger who has designs on the girl. He loses the fight and vows to "get" his rival, but soon finds that he is accused of a shooting, and believes that he is being framed by the man to whom he lost the fight.
- DirectorJ. Searle DawleyStarsMary CarrPercy MarmontGladys LeslieNellie Wayne, a retired Broadway actress, has a small dog named "Chum", who is part of a vaudeville act and is the sole support of the family. Looking for ways to make more money, she begins to write plays and sells them to a Hollywood producer, who expresses interest not only in her plays but possibly in re-starting her career.
- DirectorJ. Gordon CooperEdward DillonStarsElaine HammersteinElliott DexterKathlyn WilliamsA chorus girl goes out on a date with a rich man, but later that night he is murdered. Although she didn't do it, she doesn't want to be suspected of the crime by the police, so she marries a wealthy but very ill man who believes he will soon die and wants to leave her all his money. Complications ensue.
- DirectorIrving CummingsStarsColleen MooreJohnnie WalkerAlice LakeThe story of a young actress trying to attain stardom on Broadway.
- DirectorJohn Francis DillonStarsJoseph BlakeWarren CookHenry SedleyWhen aged Jeremy Ellsworth decides to settle his fortune on John and Beatrice, the children of his disinherited son, he sends for them to come live with him. Beatrice arrives safely, but James Gault, Ellsworth's secretary, intercepts the letter to John and engages Phil Carter to pose as the heir. John, a lumber camp foreman, hears of the plot, hastens to the Ellsworth home, and is overpowered by ruffians, who also kidnap Beatrice. Escaping his captors, John rescues his sister from a speedboat with the aid of a hydroplane and finds love with Beatrice's governess.
- DirectorTom FormanStarsKenneth HarlanMiriam CooperWalter LongAn American pilot flying in Mexico crash-lands on a ranch, and is nursed back to health by the daughter of the ranch's owner. Unbeknownst to the pilot--who has lost his memory because of the crash--the girl has been praying for a husband, and believes that God has answered her prayers by sending him this handsome pilot. However, a local guerrilla leader has also had designs on the daughter, and comes up with a plan to get rid of his competition, make some money and win the girl in the bargain.
- DirectorColin CampbellStarsDustin FarnumArline PrettyLéon BaryWhile mining in Alaska, Kit Carew is notified that his friend Frank Farfax has died in England and left him a fortune. When he arrives in England he discovers that Farfax's stepbrothers want the inheritance for themselves and will do whatever it takes to get it. Matters are complicated further for Kit when he falls in love with Farfax's stepsister Blanche Cavendish.
- DirectorGerhard LamprechtStarsPeter EsserMady ChristiansAlfred AbelSaga of the Buddenbrook family and their business, set in 19th century Germany.
- DirectorStuart PatonStarsRoy StewartLaura La PlanteHarold GoodwinDavid Darby and his younger brother Ross are both members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Ross is accused of murdering Slip Martin, but David doesn't believe his brother committed the murder and, not wanting to see him executed, takes the blame himself. However, information surfaces that seems to indicate Ross might have indeed killed Martin, and also that dance-hall girl Mary Malcolm knows who actually did commit the murder.
- DirectorColin CampbellStarsDustin FarnumDoris PawnFrancis McDonaldIn an attempt to try and tame young city girl Charlotte Rowland, Bill Coryell, a young rancher, plans a fake kidnapping party from which he is to rescue her. However, a bully interferes and incites her against Bill, but Charlotte discovers the ruse in time to save herself and Coryell.
- DirectorVictor FlemingStarsRichard DixLois WilsonMarjorie DawReturning from World War I, Glenn Kilbourne travels to Arizona to regain his health. He meets a local girl, Flo Hutler, who helps him recover. His fiancee, Carley Burch, follows him to Arizona but soon decides she'd rather go back to New York. When Flo is badly hurt in an accident, Glenn decides to repay her for her help in bringing him back to health by proposing marriage. Carley hears about it and returns to Arizona, arriving on the day the two are to be married. Complications ensue.
- DirectorFred JackmanStarsJack MulhallWalter LongSidney D'AlbrookBuck, a young Saint Bernard, is stolen from his home in England and shipped to Canada where he is used on a dogsled. He is treated badly until John Thornton, a prospector, befriends him. Buck takes the opportunity to rescue Thornton when his life is endangered. Finally, he settles down to the pleasures of family life.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn GilbertGertrude OlmsteadAlan HaleWrongfully blamed for the death of Col. John Randall, Cameo Kirby (Gilbert) must find the true villain and clear his name before he can declare his love for Adele (Olmstead), the dead man's daughter.
- DirectorJames W. HorneStarsEthel ClaytonMuriel Frances DanaKate LesterMary Grant, whose husband was killed in the war, has to support herself and her young son Tom by working in a cabaret because her husband's parents disapprove of and won't help her--but they want to adopt Tom. Complications ensue.
- DirectorIgino BonfioliCyprien SegurStarsAri de Castro VianaOsiris ColomboLucinda BarretoIn the Nineteenth Century, in Minas Gerais, the powerful farmer Luiz Roldão promised to his moribund father that his son Jorge would marry Rosita, from the Bento's family, to unite their families through the wedding bonds. However, Jorge loves Lina, the goddaughter of Roldão that lives in the farm. Due to the impossibility of the love with Jorge, Lina decides to leave the farm with her old father, and live in a poor house, becoming very ill. Meanwhile, Roldão's daughter Lili gets engaged of Dr. Carlos, from the Bento's family. Jorge brings Lina back to the farm, and with the support of the local Father Belisário, a great friend of Roldão, she is allowed to marry Jorge.
- DirectorVal PaulStarsHarry CareyMarguerite ClaytonFred R. StantonBob goes west in search of the man who framed him. On the train he meets his former sweetheart, May, who is now engaged to Jim Harper, and learns that they are on their way to a mining camp near Canyon of the Fools. Agreeing to help the sheriff capture some bandits, Bob goes into a mine cave in which some gold has been hidden. He discovers Jim Harper to be the man he has sought, and after many adventures he rescues May and rounds up the gang. He is rewarded with May's love and the gold.
- DirectorAlfred J. GouldingStarsBaby PeggyLillian HackettInez McDonnellA spoof of Bizet's Carmen. Somewhere in Spain, a young girl gets the better of the neighborhood boys, then, dressed as a fashionable senorita, visits a club where a boy is demonstrating a tango. She joins him to the enjoyment of the spectators. In act 2, she's dressed as a matador and presents herself at the arena to General della Bambinodi Carradavadoves, a man who knows bulls. She fights one and finds that her sword isn't strong enough to stab him. In the excitement, the General falls from the stands, and he and the child must face the brute. Is there an escape?